The AI Consulting Podcast

Today's guest is Pallab Deb, head of partner solutions & AI partnerships at Google Cloud. Previously running AI at WePro, an industry giant when it comes to IT services, he brings a wealth of experience to the table. Not only does Pallab do a great job of explaining the whole partnership dynamic between tech companies, but he also takes a look at the program from both sides of the field - how it c...

Today's guest is DJ Das, Founder & CEO of  Thirdeyedata.io . DJ speaks to us today about AI Readiness. How ready is your client to adopt AI technology? AI requires new workflows and data infrastructure, even a new executive understanding in terms of the strategic value of AI, so how do you assess your clients' readiness? We find that more and more folks in the services space have to find some kind...

Today's guest is David Ponevac, former CTO of Duos Technologies, and not currently with them at the time this recording is released. David speaks to us today about transitioning from a tech services/consultancy into an AI services company. In addition, he talks of his own experience with Duos Technologies' transition from older, pre-ML tools into Machine Learning, what that's meant for them in ord...

Today's guest is Anand Mahurkar, CEO and Founder of Findability Sciences, a firm with around a hundred employees in Boston, India, and Tokyo, focusing on three core areas of AI and data-related services. First, Anand speaks to us today about differentiating your services by developing core intellectual property. What it looks like to develop intellectual property that has value beyond the hours th...

Today's guest is Karen Silverman, CEO and Founder of The Cantellus Group, a California firm offering workable solutions and support to business and policy leaders as they navigate frontier technologies and how to manage them. Karen speaks to us today about how she uses the Emerj Plus platform and what she has learned from Emerj Plus to further her business, and she also talks about her experiences...

Today's guest is Sam Daish, an Emerj Plus member and Head of AI and Data Science at Qrious. Qrious is a sizable tech services company based in New Zealand. Sam talks to us today about how we went from being trained as a teacher of the classics to someone who worked in big industry and startups, and now to someone who works in AI services and has learned all the skills required for AI services. Ski...

Today's guest is AGK Karunakaran, president, and CEO at Multicoreware, a Sunnyvale firm with over 200 employees worldwide. AGK speaks to us today about making the transition from an idea to a firm with more than 200 employees and how to bend and mold a company to take over and focus on a particular niche and set of industries. We dive deeper into the art and science of finding your focus as a serv...

Today's guest is DJ Das, Founder & CEO of  Thirdeyedata.io . DJ speaks to us today about how he got off the ground by starting meetups. He speaks about how he leveraged and grew a network, developed early conversations enough to build his early revenue, team, and base of employees based on earlier projects. He also talks about the pivot from big data into AI and data service-related offerings. Are...

Today's guest is Stylianos Kampakis, CEO of The Tesseract Academy, a London-based firm whose mission is to help tech ventures and entrepreneurs improve their growth and launch new ideas. Stylianos speaks to us today about stepping out on your own, being your own boss, and spinning out businesses and how to grow a presence, develop a personal brand and work your way towards growing a company from t...

Today's guest is Marius Kierski, managing partner of Sigmoidal, a firm based in New York and Poland focused on AI and the development of AI projects. Marius speaks to us about his start in AI consulting, when he had no revenue guarantee and wanted to get his business off the ground. He talks about what did it look like to win early contracts, what were some of the sources he used to get leads, how...

Today's guest is Ric Edinberg, US President at The Evolved Group, which started as a market research firm, and they built an AI platform to support their work and the results they drive for their clients. Today Ric talks about what it looks like to evolve that layer of AI services on top of existing services offering. The lens that he applies will hopefully apply to almost any existing consulting...

Today's guest is Sanjiv Gossain, Global Head of AI for the Google Cloud business group of Cognizant, one of the world's largest IT firms. Sanjiv speaks to us today about finding the right AI fit in the enterprise. We walk through the discovery session process in terms of what team members have to be in the room, how we prioritize tasks and possibilities, how we look at workflows and find AI pocket...

Today's guest is Arnab Chakraborty, Global Managing Director and Applied Intelligence NA Lead for Accenture, the world's biggest IT services company, with an extensive AI practice. Arnab speaks with us this week about the art and science of getting a discovery session off the ground. How do we open the C-suite's eyes, how do we move forward with education in a way that unearths AI projects, and ho...

Today's guest is David Ponevac, CTO of Duos Technologies. Duos Technologies focuses on the transportation industry's automated systems, intelligent digital video, integrated smart Command and Control centers, and a broad range of smart sensors systems. David speaks to us today about what he's learned and how he's come to develop a cheat sheet for onboarding new clients. No matter what your process...

Today's guest is Luming Wang, CTO of ElectrifAi, a company that offers pre-trained AI models. Luming has held many lofty technology roles for companies in the US, like Microsoft, Amazon, and Uber. Luming provides some great insights today into how to guide clients to the best possible solution for them, how to pair up a client's opportunity and a client's problem with the right kind of AI tool tha...

Today's guest is Chris Wexler, CEO of Krunam, a firm that helps detect and prevent the spread of children's criminally distasteful images; this is a job well suited for AI and essential for keeping bad things from happening globally. Chris is also a member of our Emerj Plus community. He speaks to us today about how he came up with the idea and how he bootstrapped and pulled together the necessary...

Today's guest is Bret Greenstein, SVP and Global Head of AI at Cognizant, one of the top 5 largest tech consulting companies globally, with 2019 revenue at nearly $17B. Bret shares with us today the importance of educating our buyers. What does it look like to interact with a client who has an idea of an AI project, inform their idea of what AI is, and help refine and define the problem to solve i...

Today's guest is Dave Timm, CEO of Red Marble AI, an AI consulting software development firm in Melbourne, Australia, with an overarching focus on how AI can enhance human performance and workforce productivity. In today's episode, Dave talks to us about developing your AI consulting business idea, finding your first clients, and landing your first projects. He also goes into how to find technical...

Today's guest is Luv Tulsidas, Founder, and CEO of Techolution, an Inc 500 firm, servicing rather large enterprise customers with cloud and AI services. Luv speaks to us in this episode about what he started his consulting firm off as in the first place, about some of the early blunders he made regarding what services he brought to market and what he thought he was going to be. And then he talks a...

Today's guest is Nikunj Mehta, CEO, and Founder of Falkonry, an AI platform firm in the industry space. Nikunj speaks to us in this episode about the importance of focus on getting a company off the ground. What does it look like to focus on a sector and workflows to build early traction with sales and deliver more value? He speaks a lot about the importance of subject matter experts, not just fol...

I'm excited to announce the launch of our AI Consulting Podcast! If you want to start or grow an AI consulting company, you're in the right place. In this short introduction episode, I cover: (a) What themes and insights we'll be covering for AI consultants on this show, and (b) A highlight reel of some of our early AI Consulting Podcast guests and topics for next week. Be sure to subscribe - we'l...